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South Africa needs data centres, but not without transparency

Article One and the Centre for Human Rights have asked the Human Rights Commission to recommend a pause on huge new projects

The site where the City of Cape Town Municipal Planning Tribunal has approved the development of two huge data centres near the airport. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks
As the South African Human Rights Commission investigates the human rights impacts of data centres, Tyronne McCrindle argues that South Africa should welcome this infrastructure, but only if there is transparency, participation and benefit sharing.
Last Thursday, Article One and the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, filed a joint submission with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), which had called for submissions on data centres and human rights.
The SAHRC inquiry comes at the right time as South Africa gears up for a significant increase in data centre…

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